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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?
(a) Supportive.
(b) Disparaging.
(c) Respectful.
(d) Derogatory.

2. One view that Heschel discusses is that an outstanding feature of a poet's consciousness is the sense of being what at the moment of inspiration?
(a) Rational.
(b) Taken over by another.
(c) In control.
(d) Passive.

3. To what does Heschel compare the words of the prophet?
(a) A breeze.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Running water.
(d) Wind.

4. The fundamental feature of divine reality, present in the prophet's consciousness, is described as what?
(a) Pathos.
(b) Karma.
(c) Prophetic religion.
(d) Compassion.

5. Heschel points out that God's wrath is what?
(a) Terrible.
(b) Righteous and just.
(c) Like people's wrath.
(d) Vengeful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?

2. What cultural/religious doctrines did Philo try to mix in his studies?

3. When the pathos of God is upon a prophet what happens?

4. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?

5. When was Marcion expelled from his church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Marcion?

2. How does Heschel describe God?

3. What is one difference between apathy and pathos, as explained by Heschel?

4. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?

5. Why does Heschel think it is hard for people to understand the wrath of God?

6. What is ecstasy?

7. How does Heschel explain the beliefs that the prophets were frauds?

8. Describe one theory of the state of mind of the prophets at the time they were receiving the words of God.

9. What is the purpose of ecstasy, as explained by Heschel?

10. What is Heschel's theory of ecstasy and the prophets?

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